As of September 2019, researchers have 35,261 more reasons to use the
Union First Line Index of English Verse, hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The database now contains
all first lines, not just manuscript first lines, from
Elizabethan poetry: a bibliography and first-line index of English verse, 1559-1603, by Steven W. May and William A. Ringler, Jr., the three-volume landmark published in 2004 (London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004).…
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